On This Day …

1759 – Composer Francois Devienne was born.
1797 – Composer Franz Shubert was born.
1798 – Composer Carl Gottlieb Reissiger was born.
1906 – Composer Benjamin Frankel was born.
1963 – The Beach Boys recorded “Surfin’ U.S.A.” and “Shutdown.”
1978 – Greg Herbert (Blood Sweat & Tears) died of a drug overdose in Amsterdam during the band’s European tour. He was 30 years old.
1979 – The Clash began their first U.S. tour with Bo Diddley as their opening act.
1986 – “Down and Out in Beverly Hills” opened co-starring Little Richard.
2001 – It was announced that Peter Criss was leaving KISS and that he would be replaced by Eric Singer for the remainder of dates of the farewell tour. Criss’ last show was on October 7, 2000.

On This Day …

1715 – Composer Georg Christoph Wagenseil was born.
1782 – Composer Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber was born.
1784 – Composer Ferdinand Ries was born.
1862 – Composer Frederick (Fritz) Theodor Albert Delius was born.
1876 – Composer Havergal Brian was born.
1937 – Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded the famous “Song of “India”.
1967 – Jimi Hendrix and The Who gave a tribute concert to the Beatles late manager, Brian Epstein.
2002 – Dream Theater’s album “Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence” was released.

On This Day …

1911 – The Richard Strauss opera “Der Rosenkavalier” premiered in Dresden, Germany.
1966 – Eric Burdon (The Animals) sang lead vocals for Manfred Mann at a London concert.
1970 – Australia’s first rock festival, the Ourimbah Rock Festival was attended by 11,000 people over the weekend.
1970 – John Lennon wrote and recorded “Instant Karma.”
1974 – The Doobie Brothers opened their first European tour in London.
1975 – The BBC showed a documentary on David Bowie called “Cracked Actor.”
1979 – The ‘Gizmo’ guitar synthesizer was first demonstrated.
1988 – The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Phantom of the Opera” opened at Broadway’s Majestic Theater.
1995 – Joni Mitchell made a rare concert appearance at the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum theater in Los Angeles. She was promoting material from “Turbulent Indigo,” her newest album.
1997 – ZZ Top, James Brown and the Blues Brothers performed at the Super Bowl XXXI halftime show.

Frege’s ideal concept writing!

Gottlob Frege is one of the greatest logicians of the 29^th century. Although he died in despair because he has believed that his life work was meaningless, he was actually the one who founded the contemporary logic.

He is most known for his capital work called “Begriffsschrift” (concept writing). Frege has invented the first fully developed logical system that includes whole deductive mathematical conclusion. By inventing the universal concept notation – Begriffsschrift – Frege has reached a piece of Leibniz’s dream that we already have mentioned. Leibniz’s idea was to base whole mathematical system on logic. Based on that idea, Frege has developed Begriffsschrift as an artificial concept with very precise grammatical rules and syntax. Nowadays, we can claim that Begriffsschrift was conceptual base fir all program languages that we use today.

Last but not least, we must point out that Frege’s logic indirectly has brought Alan Turing to the idea of all-purpose computer. But, we will discuss Turing in our next blog.

On This Day …

1753 – Composer Muzio Clementi was born.
1878 – Composer Rutland Boughton was born.
1941 – Artie Shaw and his orchestra recorded “Moonglow.”
1980 – Prince’s single “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad” was released.
1988 – Nirvana recorded a ten song demo tape with producer Jack Endino. The Melvin’s Dale Crover was on drums.

On This Day …

1586 – Composer Johann Hermann Schein was born.
1703 – Composer Joseph-Hector Fiocco was born.
1855 – Composer Amedee-Ernest Chausson was born.
1870 – Composer Guillaume Lekeu was born.
1894 – Composer Walter Hamor Piston was born.
1899 – Composer Alexander Tcherepnin was born.
1942 – Harry Babbitt sang as Kay Kyser and his Orchestra recorded, “Who Wouldn’t Love You”, on Columbia Records.
1958 – “Get a Job” by the Silhouettes was released.
1964 – The album “Meet the Beatles” was released in the U.S. on Capitol Records. It was their U.S. debut LP.
1967 – Arthur Conley recorded “Sweet Soul Music”.
1969 – Elvis Presley recorded “In the Ghetto” and “Suspicious Minds.” It was the first time he had recorded in Memphis since 1956.
2002 – Sting won his first Golden Globe for his song “Until” from the “Kate & Leopold” soundtrack.

On This Day …

1835 – Composer Cesar Cui was born.
1841 – Composer Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier was born.
1939 – Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded “Jeepers Creepers.”
1944 – The first jazz concert was held at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1973 – Pink Floyd began recording “Dark Side Of The Moon.”
1974 – Bad Company was formed by ex-members of several groups. Those groups included Free, Mott the Hoople and King Crimson.
1978 – Neil Sedaka received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1991 – The 10 day Rock In Rio Two festival opened in Brazil.

On This Day …

1712 – Composer John Stanley was born.
1728 – Composer Johann Gottfried Muthel was born.
1734 – Composer Francois-Joseph Gossec was born.
1850 – Composer Alexander Sergeievich Taneyev was born.
1969 – Charlie Watts’ (Rolling Stones) book, Ode to a High Flying Bird was published. The book was a tribute to Charlie Parker.
1969 – Led Zeppelin’s debut album was released.
1969 – “Lady Samantha” was released in England. It was one of the very first recordings by Reginald Kenneth Dwight, better known as Elton John.
1970 – The Doors played the first of several shows at the Felt Forum in New York City. The shows were recorded for use on their “Absolutely Live” album.
1992 – “Michael Jackson…the Legend Continues” aired on CBS-TV.
1996 – Pink Floyd was officially inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
1997 – Metallica’s video “King Nothing” premiered on MTV.

On This Day …

1856 – Composer Johann Christian Sinding was born.
1875 – Composer Reinhold Gliere was born.
1928 – “Ol’ Man River” was recorded by Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. Bing Crosby was the song’s featured vocalist. The song is from the Broadway musical, “Showboat”.
1964 – “Ring of Fire” by Johnny Cash became the first country album to top the U.S. pop album chart.
1965 – The Beach Boys recorded “Do You Wanna Dance.”
1967 – Jimi Hendrix recorded “Purple Haze.”
1969 – “This Was” was released by Jethro Tull.

On This Day …

1945 – Erskine Hawkins recorded “Tippin’ In” for Victor Records with the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra.
1947 – The musical “Finian’s Rainbow” opened in New York City and ran for 725 performances. The music was written by Burton Lane and the lyrics were written by E.Y. Harburg.
1956 – Elvis Presley recorded his first songs as an RCA Victor artist in Nashville. Elvis recorded “Heartbreak Hotel,” “I Was the One,” “I’m Counting On You,” “I Got a Woman” and “Money Honey.”
1978 – Howlin’ Wolf died following brain surgery in Chicago.
1987 – Madhouse’s first album entitled “8″ was released.
1997 – James Brown got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.